[NPInfo] hopefully this is a clean copy

[Jeffrey Hazzard]

   The Federal Trade Commission recently rendered a ruling which, in essence, said that there is no legitimate reason for physicians to hinder the trade of nurse practitioners staffing or owning retail clinics (like the kind inside drug stores).  The physicians sought strict regulation, limited advertising, and mandates for more rigorous professional oversight of NPs by physicians.  The FTC ruled that such regulations would, if enacted, cost consumers access to healthcare and cost them more money without any additional benefit.
 
  When you go up against the federal government in legal battle over policy, you NEVER win.  No one, not even the AMA is going to outlast Uncle Sam in federal court.  This FTC ruling is calling the docs for what they are.  We NPs/PAs are like a rising tide:  The docs can see us coming on gradually, and they have time to react, fidget, squirm, and stew, but there is nothing possible for them to do about it.
  We NPs/PAs are an immutable, incompressible force coming to change their egocentric monopoly.   The medical cartel (AMA)  held uncontested power for 100 years, and never saw us as a threat, their airs of superiority kept them from recognizing our Trojan horse.  Posterity won't make a more deserving collection of primadonnas than this current batch suffering the usurpation of power.  These condescending rascals deserve all they are about to experience.